Proximity relationships within a birth cohort of immature Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata) in a free-ranging group during the first four years of life

✍ Scribed by Masayuki Nakamichi

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 773 KB
• Volume: 40
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0275-2565
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2345(1996)40:4<315::aid-ajp2>3.0.co;2-0

✦ Synopsis

This study was designed to characterize the proximity relationships among 20 immature Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata) of the same age in a free-ranging group during the first 4 years of life. Most male and female immature monkeys showed a consistent preference for proximity within their cohort to certain same-sex individuals whose dominance ranks were immediately adjacent to their own throughout the first 4 years. Such prolonged proximity relationships between peers of the same sex were largely a reflection of those between their mothers. Therefore, the proximity relationships between peers seem to be formed under the influence of social relationships between the mothers. o